SUMMARY: Understanding the mechanism of action of a protein or designing better ligands for it, often requires access to a bound (holo) and an unbound (apo) state of the protein. Resources for the quick and easy retrieval of such conformations are severely limited. Apo-Holo Juxtaposition (AHoJ), is a web application for retrieving apo-holo structure pairs for user-defined ligands. Given a query structure and one or more user-specified ligands, it retrieves all other structures of the same protein that feature the same binding site(s), aligns them, and examines the superimposed binding sites to determine whether each structure is apo or holo, in reference to the query. The resulting superimposed datasets of apo-holo pairs can be visualized and downloaded for further analysis. AHoJ accepts multiple input queries, allowing the creation of customized apo-holo datasets. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Freely available for non-commercial use at http://apoholo.cz. Source code available at https://github.com/cusbg/AHoJ-project. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

Department of Cell Biology Faculty of Science Charles University Prague 12843 Czech Republic

Department of Software Engineering Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Charles University Prague 12116 Czech Republic

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